COURTESY OF REACH RECORDS
THE COOL CHRISTIAN
tle books about Christianity, but
more little books by Christians on
other subjects — with their Christianity latent,” Lewis wrote.
There was an aesthetic and
moral driver behind this sentiment: If you are an artist, make
art, not instructional materials,
because that is the right thing
to do and that is how you reflect
positively on your creator. The
same goes for science, or politics.
But Lewis’ exhortation was inherently strategic. His point, essentially, was that the best way
to influence how people think is
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not to hit them over the head with
your point of view, but rather to
shape subtly the things they assume to be true about the world.
Lecrae acknowledged that the
question of influence is behind
his desire to be known first as a
musician, rather than a member
of a religion.
“I’m digesting C.S. Lewis and
Tim Keller and so on and so
forth, Francis Schaeffer,” Lecrae said, referencing some of
the most influential evangelical
thinkers of the last half-century.
“I’m seeing how they’ve affected
culture and politics and science
and so on and so forth, with implicit faith versus explicit faith.”
“On my worst
days, I ask
myself, ‘Am
I everything
these
Christians
say I am?
Am I the
hypocrite, am
I falling off?”